Visions of the Kingdom: Week 47

Ezekiel 44:1-31: The Prince and the Priests

• 44:3 We learn later that the Prince must offer sin offerings (45:22), and has sons (46:16), so is unlikely to be Jesus.
• 44:8 "you have appointed others" - Judah had followed the pagan custom of hiring (or enslaving) foreigners to work in their temples.
• 44:9 "uncircumcised in heart and/or flesh" - the Hebrew conjunction does not distinguish the logic. Must those who enter the temple be circumcised in both or either?